Investigative Stories
Unbridled expenditure at Kathmandu Metropolitan City
KMC official’s daily snacks, meeting allowances and transportation expenses is unusually high.
Couples under wraps: Women’s ordeals, men off the hook
Scores of women who killed their infants born out of “illicit affairs” in fear and feats of rage are behind...
Accommodation allowance for landlord lawmakers
The list of MPs receiving a monthly housing allowance despite living in their own private bungalows -- obtained from the...
How doctors ignore far west?
Even the doctors, who are supposed to provide health services to people, ignore the far western region, as illustrated by...
An alarming verdict
“If property has to be acquired without owners consent, it can be proceeded only after giving compensation by law” verdict...
Landless squatters on the rise despite distributing 46 bighas of land
A revelation of how political parties distributed public land to their kith and kins in the name of landless squatters...
Unsafe homes, victimized by own
Mothers are in dilemma whether to protect their husband who raped their daughter or to fight against him for the...
How Nepal has become a hub for illegal immigrants
Illegal immigrants have been surprisingly attracted to Nepal. One such family faces 10 million rupees in fine for overstay, according...
Moving backward: Nepal govt. fails to nab wrongdoers
Malaysia's anti-graft agency, Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, has arrested former home minister, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, in connection with an investigation into...
‘Entire village trapped in debt’
Dalits and poor people of far western hills continued to be trapped in bonded labor, with powerful people exploiting the...
Preying on Poor People’s ID
Tempted by the benefit that comes with securing an ID for the poor, influential people including former ministers, local representatives,...
The Nepal-Gulf human trafficking nexus
Nepal is a source country for human trafficking. In the past, women were trafficked mainly to supply the sex trade...
Chief justice’s order puts public land worth Rs 2 billion in the hands of an individual
Revelation of the bench involving chief justice candidate Deepak Raj Joshee ordering registration of the 36 ropani 6 anna land...
State mechanism abets Rs 5 billion loot from poor Nepalis
How was Rs 5 billion collected from Malaysia-bound Nepali workers in the involvement of government agencies? Revelation of the strange...